Unless anyone knows another reason for this impressive increase in comments? Seems to roughly coincide with Sync launching. If thats the case, just goes to show the importance of good third party apps.
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
EDIT: Looks like a confusingly labeled graph and I think this is total comments. I have no idea why that spike could exist though.
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Sync is made by one guy. Not a company.
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Yes it’s one person, the LTD is likely for tax purposes but it’s just him, no employees.
it’s people arguing about whether or not they use sync
… honestly tho I wouldn’t be surprised, I’m using it a lot more now 🤷♂️
Some people seem to be interpreting this to mean 11 million comments per day. I think it means the numbers are updated daily.
The numbers also don’t make a lot of sense to me. Front page of lemmy.world says 620,000 (local origin) comments. And Lemmy sequentially numbers the comments for an instance, mixing both local and federated and the recent numbers look like 2,122,067. Lemmy.ml says 253,000 on the front page, and their index key is showing 2,321,959 for a comment made today. I have to imagine that these two servers are subscribed to a lot of stuff (including each other). I’d be surprised if there were more than 4 million unique comments in Lemmy. And there would be some kbin messages in the Lemmy.world index.
Hmm, yeah I see what you are saying. I mean you’re right that would be an insane number of comments wouldn’t it.
I wonder then where that figure is from and why it jumped so much?
Probably the sum of local origin comments on the federated instances.
Should be possible to make a per day graph by graphing the diff per day.
Boost for reddit is also releasing soon, expect this chart to blow up once again.
Yep can’t wait! Has the dev given any ETA?
No, only “soon”: https://lemmy.world/comment/1988014
I still don’t know how this all works, but I’ll just keep blindly using it because I like Sync, and Laurence deserves our support.
You’ll catch on. It’s just like using Reddit, except each subreddit includes a web address in the name. Other than that, it’s mostly the same.
Yeah, I feel right at home since I started using Sync. I also try to be more active to improve Lemmy in general. I wish I could create threads but the function is not working for me.
The Sync dev said we should have that ability within a week. I think he posted that comment two days ago.
Yeah will be nice when we can create posts. Its pretty easy on mobile web browser though the UI is clean enough for just that task in the meantime.
I must say sync is pretty great. Just bugs me that I can’t yet alter the size of all the text instead of only comments. I am sure the developer will implement these options so I am not fretting.
I was a relay pro user and this is really close to it so I am happy.
You can change the base font size under:
Settings > General > Base Font SizeDirect link to setting:
Settings shortcut: General > Base font size
I’m using something called connect. I’m not sure why I picked this one but it works quite well. Is sync so much better? The hype around it is so impressive I feel I must be missing something.
Connect is actually heavily inspired by sync. Sync’s nice, but maybe only a bit more polished then connec, otherwise the interface is very similar. When I tried sync the other day the search wasn’t working, so I think I’ll just stay with connect. Honestly, I never used sync for Reddit so when I tried it after hearing all the hype I was kinda let down. It’s nice but it’s in the same league as like 3 or 4 other apps imo (assuming they fixed search)
It’s a very emotional thing for many of us. I’ve beed using reddit on sync exclusively, I just couldn’t be arsed to use the web version any more.
So when they killed third party apps, reddit was dead to me. Not only because of the terrible user experience of the web site and official app, but mostly because of the way they treated the developers after all those years.
After the lemmy version came out, I opened it up and everything was back to normal (except for the missing content).
I’m really hoping that the devs of other apps succeed in the transition as well and they manage to get a good portion of their users to join as well.
As for the FOSS fundamentalists: I really don’t get it. I’ve worked on open source projects in the past, when I felt I could contribute. I don’t get all the hate being directed towards sync though. You like your FOSS-app? Great! I prefer sync and I’m happy to support the author.
Sync has a lot more features. Direct imgur upload from commenting, live comment mode (if Lemmy ever gets big enough for game threads), open communities in new windows are some of my favorites.
Direct imgur upload from commenting
Is that new? I’m on beta 26
Just tried it and it says "failed to upload image"lol so maybe it’s not running yet. When you hit reply it’s the image icon next to the folder icon
That one should work. It doesn’t use Imgur though, it uploads to your home instance’s pictrs.
Maybe it’s a lemm.ee issue then? Still not working
Hmm looks like it. Works from my lemdro.id account but not from my lemm.ee account.
Edit: I’ve just checked, lemm.ee returns an error saying the image is too large when using the website as well. I think they’ve set it low to effectively disable image uploading (since it gave the same error with files under 1 MB).
Damn lol so I should be on a server that allows larger image sizes… That’s annoying lol
I think some sports communities could sustain game threads here. The soccer community seems to have mostly stayed on Reddit, but Formula 1 definitely is active enough here for live threads for races.
A lot of the functionality isn’t ready yet including submitting posts - but it’s coming. Connect is currently more complete but Sync will get there soon.
Connect is perfectly fine. I just used sync for a long time and like some particular things about it (e.g., being able to jump from one comment tree to the next reliably and quickly).
Sync has a better ui and customization (in my opinion) and more functions ALTHOUGH at the moment posting and hiding posts doesn’t work, so I don’t know if I can recommend it at the moment
Before Sync I settled on Connect, it’s a really nice app. But Sync is a great app, one of the best implementations of Material I’ve used. And its UI is the result of years of work on the Reddit app, so it’s got a lot more features and is already more polished than the others, despite being in beta.
I used it for years on that other site, so when it came out for lemmy it felt like coming home. Not sure how much is just muscle memory and being used to it, but the design and interface are really well done.
If it weren’t for Sync I’d still be using Connect. Connect is, in my opinion, the 2nd best app for Lemmy right now.
I know I’ve been commenting a lot more w/ sync.
Sync definitely has me commenting more personally
yeah me too, it’s easier than the other apps
Eh, not for me. Not for me.
Sent from Sync
That’s interesting, I’ve been waiting for sync since the reddit shutdown but in the mean time I’ve just fallen in love with Jerboa, I paid for the sync subscription but I’m still using Jerboa instead, the only feature I’m missing is direct share on pictures and videos
I like Jerboa and I was happy using it until Sync arrived. Still, there’s just nothing even close to the Sync experience for me.
Here’s to posting from Sync being available soon. Still have to go to other lemmy apps to post.
“Reddit Won”
Context: https://gizmodo.com/reddit-news-blackout-protest-is-finally-over-reddit-won-1850707509
Not really? They won short term. In a couple years most of their content will be reposts and bot comments.
It sounds like they’ve won, and sure the people in charge might catch a payday, but once the Fediverse gets more user friendly (which is happening at a rapid pace), and more of the long term reddit creators move over here, their platform will die.
They have restricted which apps you can use, they are trying to make it so you can’t use the mobile site, they’ll eventually kill old.reddit. I guarantee they’ll implement some sort of subscription service so you’ll have to pay to be apart of a community, etc.
Once the porn creators leave and come here, then reddit will start dying
It’ll just be digg again pretty much lol. Just bot memes stolen from here or people struggling to let go of a dying site.
Reddit probably thinks it won. They killed all the apps and now they will increasingly force feed monetisation down the necks of the userbase until everyone decides to leave just like they left Facebook.
Which is their goal too probably that’s how IPOs go, and how corporations handle tech companies, buy it milk it and let it die. Nobody cares about long term It’s all about profit this quarter then ditch the shares to the next sucker.
Reddit will go the same way as Facebook. Never die, but it will be like visiting a retirement village.
Maybe. Time will tell, but either way Lemmy won too. And me. Having a better time here; there’s at least the potential for meaningful discourse here unlike the firehouse of pointless pseudo-conversation on the larger subreddits.
I have found myself using Lemmy a lot more in general since Sync. Much better than all of the other apps imo.
I went from 1 comment a week to a few a day, I can’t be the only one.
Sync definitely helped with that.
I just started using lemmy now that sync is available
Because a lot of us like having a sleek app.
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Objection! Speculating.
I’m here just to say I still use Liftoff. Shall this comment be also counted towards the stats.
